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Termites and Termite Control: a Report to the Termite Investigations Committee A Discussion of the Biology of Termites, and an Account of the, Termites of the United States, Mexico, the Canal Zone, the West Indies, Hawaii, and the Philippine Islands, with Recommendations for Prevention and Control of Termite Damage by Methods of Construction and the Use of Chemically Treated and Unpalatable Woods

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A REPORT of a local committee in San Francisco in 1927 attracted attention to the great damage done by termites in California. The public was alarmed and funds were quickly subscribed by various interests to finance an investigation committee, the report of which has just appeared. It is an elaborate work, the result of the collaboration of thirty-four authors, under a board of six editors. The board of directors of the committee consisted of twenty-four members, operating with thirteen sub-committees.

Termites and Termite Control: a Report to the Termite Investigations Committee. A Discussion of the Biology of Termites, and an Account of the, Termites of the United States, Mexico, the Canal Zone, the West Indies, Hawaii, and the Philippine Islands, with Recommendations for Prevention and Control of Termite Damage by Methods of Construction and the Use of Chemically Treated and Unpalatable Woods.

Editorial Board:—Prof. Charles A. Kofoid (Editor-in-Chief), Prof. S. F. Light, A. C. Horner, Prof. Merle Randall, Prof. W. B. Herms and Earl E. Bowe. Pp. xxvi + 734. (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press; London: Cambridge University Press, 1934.) 22s. 6d. net.

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B., M. Termites and Termite Control: a Report to the Termite Investigations Committee A Discussion of the Biology of Termites, and an Account of the, Termites of the United States, Mexico, the Canal Zone, the West Indies, Hawaii, and the Philippine Islands, with Recommendations for Prevention and Control of Termite Damage by Methods of Construction and the Use of Chemically Treated and Unpalatable Woods . Nature 133, 929–930 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133929a0

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